linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] Documentation: devicetree: Fix Xilinx VDMA specification

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Message-ID: <bd47278216b64375b32cdc9ed66fe907@BN1BFFO11FD024.protection.gbl>
Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:26:03 -0800
From:	Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@...inx.com>
To:	Andreas Färber <afaerber@...e.de>
CC:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>, <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	"OPEN FIRMWARE AND..." <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Srikanth Thokala <sthokal@...inx.com>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] Documentation: devicetree: Fix Xilinx VDMA
 specification

On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 07:03PM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 12.11.2014 um 16:57 schrieb Sören Brinkmann:
> > On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 02:51PM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
> >> The specification requires xlnx,data-width, but example and driver use
> >> xlnx,datawidth. Change the specification to match the implementation.
> > 
> > Isn't this the wrong way around? The bindings are considered API, so
> > shouldn't the driver be fixed to match the spec?
> 
> In theory, patch review should've never let the two differ... ;)
> 
> It's not my driver, so I fixed the perceived inconsistency the least
> invasive way; Michal and Srikanth seemed to concur at the time.
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4620261/
> 
> > Are there already dts files out there using either of these options?
> 
> In upstream, no. microblaze and virtex440 use a
> xlnx,include-datawidth-matching-0 property as precedence for the
> spelling, whereas there is an fsl,data-width and an unused msix-data-width.
> 
> Downstream, yes: Beyond my own patch derived from the Parallella tree,
> there's some in the ADI tree. None in the Xilinx tree on quick check.
> 
> I haven't encountered any using the documented xlnx,data-width - but
> this patch was authored pre 3.17, haven't ran a full Web search again.

grepping through linux-next shows some usage of xlnx,datawidth, but
only the single hit in  Documentation for xlnx,data-width.
Other than VDMA the other hit seems to be just some DT
documentation which I can't find a driver for...
Anyhow, this patch is probably the best way of fixing this.

Reviewed-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@...inx.com>

	Thanks,
	Sören
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